Teacher of Geography
Royal Alexandra and Albert School, Reigate, Surrey, RH2 0TD13 days remaining to apply
Start date details
ASAP
Closing date
9 December 2024 at 9am
Date listed
10 October 2024
Job details
Job role
- Teacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- FTE £33,075 - £45,037
Teacher of Geography job summary
The Royal Alexandra and Albert School exists to give our children a distinctly different start in life, preparing them for the world with hope, optimism, compassion and empathy.
We are a co-educational, non-selective state boarding school, for boys and girls aged 7 - 18,. This is a boarding school with Flexi Boarding students attending from the local area and a lively community of around 400 Full Boarders,passionately involved in a wide range of after-school and weekend activities and trips.
Our Ofsted inspection of March 2024 states ”pupils are happy and well cared for at Royal Alexandra and Albert School. They benefit from positive relationships with staff across the school. Pupils feel safe, confident that if they report any concerns or worries they will be dealt with”.
We offer:
- Professional, supportive and committed staff team
- Beautiful estate set in 260 acres of parkland
- Convenient location, close to the A23 and M25
- Free on-site parking
We are looking for an exceptional Teacher of Geography who can provide highly effective and innovative teaching of Geography across the senior school, to ensure that all our pupils make excellent progress and inspire students to have a passion for the subject.
Geography sits within the Humanities Faculty. It is very popular subject in the Faculty with four classes in Years 10 and 11 and a steady uptake at A Level. There are two designated classrooms, text books for every year, centrally planned lessons in Years 7-11 and an extensive collection of fieldwork equipment. There is a very good ethos of cooperative and supportive working as part of a team both within the Faculty and subject team.
The school’s approach to GCSE leads to an increasing uptake in the 6th form.
The successful candidate will be:
- Passionate about the teaching of Geography
- An excellent practitioner
- Enthusiastic about his/her own professional development
- Willing to contribute to the wider education of students, for example through fieldwork and use of our amazing school grounds.
We reserve the right to interview and appoint prior to the closing date of the advertisement
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.
Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.
Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children
You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.
Applying for the job
This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.
CVs are not accepted.
About Royal Alexandra and Albert School
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, ages 7 to 18
- Education phase
- Through
- School size
- 1055 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 7 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
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